Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes:
Some of these programs recognize the @option{--help} and @option{--version}
-options only when one of them is the sole command line argument.
+options only when one of them is the sole command line argument. For
+these programs, abbreviations of the long
Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes:
Thanks for the report. POSIX does not require printf(1) to support
argument swapping:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/printf.html
So this is technically not a bug. However, if you would like to submit a
patch that adds this as
Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes:
Certainly some inconsistent behavior. echo takes multiple arguments, but
only
when they are the short options -[neE] (I guess it's okay that they don't
have
long-option variants?). But when --help or --version is present, echo acts
like it takes
Eric Blake e...@byu.net wrote:
Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes:
Some of these programs recognize the @option{--help} and @option{--version}
-options only when one of them is the sole command line argument.
+options only when one of them is the sole command line argument. For
+these
Eric Blake e...@byu.net wrote:
Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes:
Certainly some inconsistent behavior. echo takes multiple arguments, but
only
when they are the short options -[neE] (I guess it's okay that they don't
have
long-option variants?). But when --help or --version is present,
ls -d
returns only '.'
Per your faq this is the designed in operation
ls --help
does not reflect that operation:
-d, --directorylist directory entries instead of contents,
and do not dereference symbolic links
For that result it should read
-d,
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, John Bowling wrote:
ls -d
returns only '.'
Per your faq this is the designed in operation
ls --help
does not reflect that operation:
-d, --directorylist directory entries instead of contents,
and do not dereference symbolic links
I've pushed a few changes to a new next branch.
I expect to rebase it against master.
$ g shortlog HEAD ^master
build: use dist-xz, not dist-lzma
cleanup/modernize: don't test HAVE_MBRTOWC; now gnulib provides it
portability: accommodate gnulib's getaddrinfo change
